Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia
研究发现沙特年轻已婚男性私下大多支持女性外出工作，但严重低估了其他男性的支持程度；纠正这一误解后，男性更愿意帮助妻子求职，妻子也更可能申请和面试外出工作。
We show that the vast majority of young married men in Saudi Arabia privately support women working outside the home (WWOH) and substantially underestimate support by other similar men. Correcting these beliefs increases men’s (costly) willingness to help their wives search for jobs. Months later, wives of men whose beliefs were corrected are more likely to have applied and interviewed for a job outside the home. In a recruitment experiment with a local company, randomly informing women about actual support for WWOH leads them to switch from an at-home temporary enumerator job to a higher-paying, outside-the-home version of the job.